Change And New Beginnings

Change And New Beginnings, doing business as Community Action North Bay, is a non-profit organization based in Fairfield, California that operates as a federal grant recipient delivering housing assistance and supportive services to homeless individuals, families, and veterans in Solano County and across California. The organization does not hold federal contracts; it operates exclusively as a prime recipient of federal grants (95% of its award footprint) and as a sub-recipient on two additional grant awards, with no contract prime or subcontract activity in the federal space.

CANB's federal grant portfolio centers almost exclusively on homelessness and housing services. The Department of Housing and Urban Development's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development is the dominant funding source, accounting for 48 of CANB's 58 total awards. CANB has held consecutive annual Continuum of Care (CoC) Program grants (CFDA 14.267) since 2021, with five named awards visible in the recent period: $148,374 for fiscal year 2023–24 (award date September 1, 2023), $164,097 for calendar-year 2024 (award date January 1, 2024), $216,923 for fiscal year 2024–25 (award date September 1, 2024), and $257,387 for fiscal year 2025–26 (award date September 1, 2025). Each CoC award supports five program components — permanent supportive housing for persons with disabilities, rapid rehousing, transitional housing, supportive services only, and Homeless Management Information Systems (HMIS) — with funding applied to case management, rental assistance, operational costs, and administrative expenses. CANB also receives Department of Veterans Affairs funding. A $850,000 VA Homeless Providers Grant and Per Diem Program award (CFDA 64.024, dated March 23, 2022) funded capital work to reduce congregate living and create individual living units for homeless veterans; the VA also provided per diem funding through an award dated August 28, 2023 with an ultimate completion date of September 30, 2025 to support operational costs of transitional housing beds for homeless veterans. CANB operates as a sub-recipient on two Housing Opportunity for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA) grants from the California Department of Public Health (July 1, 2024 and July 1, 2025), providing HIV/AIDS housing assistance and supportive services statewide. The Department of Labor Veterans Employment and Training Service issued two additional grants.

Activity has declined modestly in recent years — four awards in 2021 declining to two in 2025. The source reports a nominal combined potential value of $30,000 across all awards, but this appears to reflect a data-capture artifact; the source simultaneously reports combined obligated dollars of $25.7 million, indicating actual federal investment at that magnitude. One award reaches ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and therefore faces recompete risk.